Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Eggs Collective are after the #bestnighteva with this joyful show modeled on the great British night out. Gold sequinned dresses, blue eyeshadow, and WKD by the bucketload are vital ingredie…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 03:00PMAva is fascinated by human beings. Not just generally, but in the academic, evolutionary sense. She’s also going through a tough time and needs a break, so she’s on the pull.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMMarnie’s a 22-year-old single mum from Bermondsey and every day is a fight at the moment.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, August 21, 2017
A woman falls asleep in front of the telly waiting for her teenaged son to come home. Instead, the police knocking on her door wakes her up at 3 am. Her son’s fine, but he’s done somethi…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:30AMSunday, August 20, 2017
Actor and writer Milly Thomas is an unstoppable force refusing to shy away from tough material. Her two shows at the fringe are stylistically different from each other, but both are similarl…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:30PMThank goodness that global warming is just a myth and skins are shed to reveal ridiculous nude allusion onesies.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMThings that are good about Lists for the End of the World
1. It’s funny, sad and moving all at once
2. Though the concept is simple, it’s structurally dynamic
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:30AMMowgli, a ferocious boy-child raised by wolves in the jungle, has been kicked out of the pack. He’s trying to figure out what to do next when he meets a mysterious creature from another wo…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSaturday, August 19, 2017
Old Kent Road are a London-based company of hoofers whose vocabulary is developed out of improvisation in response to a jazz accompaniment. The results mean the dancers’ tap shoes become a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, August 17, 2017
When they were kids, Alice promised Sam that when they were grown, they would still hang out and play superheroes. Now they’re uni students home for the summer and have both changed a lot …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMTo celebrate their tenth year of creating superb physical theatre, Theatre Ad Infinitum bring two of their early works back to the Fringe. Their one-man Odyssey, touring since 2009, and the …
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMWednesday, August 16, 2017
1987. Hull. Two couples in the same hospital each have a child. Leah is born to a working-class family and Chris into a middle class one. As they grow up, their lives are shaped by world eve…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMAfter growing up on Disney films, Chris’ aim in life is singular and simple: to live happily ever after. He thinks he achieves it when he meets Ryan as a newly qualified Drama teacher in C…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 14, 2017
Rule number one: We do not ask questions about Project Mayhem.
Rule number two: We do not ask questions about Project Mayhem.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMSunday, August 13, 2017
Andrew Maddock, the writer behind the hugely successful IN/OUT (a feeling) has a great talent for creating fully developed and multi-layered characters that don’t come from privileged back…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMSaturday, August 12, 2017
We all know the world is fucked. But who can we blame? In Ontroerend Goed’s £¥€$ (LIES), they blame the global banking system.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMIn 1949, George Orwell lived the final months of his life in University College Hospital due to a severe case of tuberculosis. Torn between an uncertain faith in a recovery and the conscious…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMMonday, August 7, 2017
The music they listen to, and that which seeps from them with aching melancholy, is by Bob Dylan – written decades after the Great Depression ended. Combined with Conor McPherson’s earth…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMMonday, July 31, 2017
A middle-aged, gay Welshman contemplates the English class he teaches in Hong Kong. Amongst the students is Windy, the Chinese woman with whom he shares his bed.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, July 29, 2017
Bechdel Theatre’s recent initiative Bechdel Testing Life asks women to send in recorded conversations from their everyday lives that pass the test. These are then given to playwrights, who…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, July 28, 2017
The show revolves around three couples; central are husband and wife Steven and Amelia, whose clashes over television choices mask deeper communication problems in their relationship. Amelia…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Tighter dialogue in the latter half and the addition of some physical theatre sequences give this update more sophistication, but a few of the original issues are still there. McNeill, who a…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMMonday, July 24, 2017
Theatre can plumb the depths of despair. It can elevate human glory and achievement. It can stir the heart and still the soul. Or it can throw a fabulous party on a rocket ship full of beard…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 12:00PMAn unreal Cork is the scenario for the darkly picaresque adventures of the two protagonists: born on the same day, Runt and Pig have grown up developing a close secret world of their own wit…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
The keeper of the gates decides who is ready for the adventure, who isn’t, who deserves to proceed, who is sent home. Once inside the jungle, animal instincts take over.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 10:00AMWhat I expected to be an impenetrable piece for anyone who does not have children, or has ever desired to become parent, turned out to be 90 minutes of intense and highly relatable theatre-m…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, July 17, 2017
The bed is the first thing we see. The mess is the second. By the end of the evening, we see just how messy one bed can get.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 01:00PMFriday, July 7, 2017
A dozen or so of us were led to the roof of the Royal Festival Hall where we were told to expect: ‘A multi-sensory encounter of shifting sound, colour and light, which reinvents the gig-go…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMThursday, July 6, 2017
Even if the audience understands that Macbeth is about somebody who murders the king and sees witches, they still want to grasp what is happening line to line and scene to scene. When a play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, July 3, 2017
This Hamlet, freshly transferred to the West End from the Almeida, is a slick, beast of a production surpassing three hours. Undeniably contemporary, it does its best to smash the restrictio…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 09:00AMSunday, July 2, 2017
The performers are framed by a false, red curtained, proscenium arch that forms, like the show itself a facade: a description of something without being either of itself or the thing it desc…
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